Media mogul and coalition of stars join the growing battle over tech firms using
creative works to train programs
It is an unlikely alliance: the billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and a
panoply of leading artists including the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, the
actors Kevin Bacon and Julianne Moore, and the author Kazuo Ishiguro.
This week, they began two very public fights with artificial intelligence
companies, accusing them of using their intellectual property without permission
to build the increasingly powerful and lucrative new technology.
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Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media
crackdown since disputed election
The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who spent some of his
happiest years chronicling life in Caracas, once declared journalism “the best
job in the world”.
Not so if you are reporting on today’s Venezuela, where journalists are feeling
the heat as the South American country lurches towards full-blown dictatorship
under President Nicolás Maduro.
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X owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted
rioters would be sent to detention camps
Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering
sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.
Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by
Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was
deleted.
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Our sample of political content shows how campaigns and individuals have been
using the video-sharing platform
* UK general election live: latest updates
* Live tracker: UK general election results 2024
If a week is a long time in politics, the five-year gap between UK elections is
an eternity. The political landscape has changed dramatically since the Tories’
landslide victory in 2019 – but so too has the social media landscape.
In 2019 TikTok was, according to a Guardian explainer, “a video-sharing app
which has become phenomenally popular with teenagers”.
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